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KOMITAS
The Gurdjieff Ensemble
Levon Eskenian
ECM 2451

Excerpts from the concert at Muziekgebouw, Holland Festival 2015.

This program presents the music of Komitas arranged for Armenian traditional instruments by Levon Eskenian
Levon Eskenian formed his ensemble in 2008 to explore the inspirational sources of Gurdjieff’s music. The group’s debut album, Music of Georges I. Gurdjieff, issued by ECM in 2011, was a history-making project, drawing new attention to Gurdjieff’s compositions in his native Armenia and around the world, and winning prizes – including the Edison Award in the Netherlands and the National Music Award in Armenia – for its imaginative recasting of the music for traditional folk instruments.
Now Eskenian and his musicians turn their attention to the music of Komitas Vardapet (1869-1935)
The music of Komitas was an important reference for Thomas de Hartmann when preparing Gurdjieff’s music for solo piano and Komitas also influenced Levon Eskenian when preparing his own Gurdjieff arrangements. For these and other reasons reinvestigating the music of Komitas seemed a logical next step for Eskenian and the Gurdjieff Ensemble.

Komitas (1869-1935) was a composer, priest, collector and arranger of folk songs, choirmaster, singer, rigorous researcher into khaz, the neumatic system developed in Armenia between the ninth century and the fifteenth.

In his work as a collector of thousands of folk songs, sacred songs and instrumental melodies, Komitas explored the connections that uniquely bind together Armenian sacred and secular music. With Eskenian's special focus on folk instrumentation and inspired arrangements the Gurdjieff Ensemble illuminate the deep roots of Komitas's compositions in this programme.


Excerpts from:

Yerangi /dance of Yerevan
Shushiki /dance of Vagharshapat
Lorva Gutanerg (Ancient plough song from the Lori region)
Karno Shoror (Shoror of Karin, ancient Armenian dance)
Mani Asem ( Ritual song)
Msho Shoror (Series of ancient Armenian dances associated with pilgrimage to the monastery of Surb Karapet, according to Komitas, these dances and their music reach back to Armenia’s pagan time, long before the state adoption of Christianity in 301)

Levon Eskenian - arranger, director
Emmanuel Hovhannisyan - duduk, zurna, pku
Norayr Gapoyan - duduk
Avag Margaryan - pogh, zurna
Armen Ayvazyan - kamancha, cymbal
Aram Nikoghosyan - oud, bell
Meri Vardanyan - kanon
Vladimir Papikyan - santur
Davit Avagyan - tar
Mesrop Khalatyan - dap, kshots, burvar
Eduard Harutyunyan - tmbuk, cymbal